On Tuesday, 28 May 2013 at 00:50:04 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 02:14:06 Borden wrote:
Good evening, all,
I'm making a new thread on this because my question isn't
strictly related to the DDoc issues I've mentioned in earlier
threads. Rather, it has to do with the dependencies of the
posix.mak file in the dlang.org repo (on GitHub, for greater
clarity):
posix.mak, beginning at line 236, compiles local copies of DMD,
DRuntime and Phobos. Is all of this extra compilation really
necessary for someone who, presumably, already installed D
using
the installer packages?
Wouldn't it be more reasonable to see if the most current
version
of DMD is installed and, if not, panic out and tell the user to
go and fetch the latest copy from the website? Then the rest of
the makefile could use the installed copies on the user's
computer rather than download and recompile them?
This question is specific to the dlang.org repo and NOT to any
other repos hosted at GitHub.
It's a bad idea to assume that a released version of dmd and
Phobos will work
with the current git repos. It's far less of an issue than it
used to be, but
breaking changes still happen (some of which are regressions
and get fixed and
some of which are on purpose), and there's no guarantee that
there haven't
been changes which require that you have the latest of
everything in order to
build the git versions.
- Jonathan M Davis
Good evening, Jonathan,
The thing, though, is that, unless I've misread the makefile,
dlang.org doesn't have any code that needs compiling. All it
needs DMD for is to generate the documentation (which, I'm
presuming, can be accomplished by the most current released
version) and generate the docfiles for the Phobos libraries
(which, I'm guessing, should be compiled against a current
release of the libraries).
